Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend Flat - Recommendations

• Vol: 2
• 2018 - 2019

• Vol: 9+; Ch: 80+
• 2012 - ?

Tamaki Honda, a first year high school student, joins the peculiar SNS Club. With nothing but her wits and her artistic skills, she must traverse the world of doujin (self-published) game development. As new issues arise within the development of game making, Tamaki learns more about her club member’s odd personalities.

• Vol: 6; Ch: 30
• 2015 - 2017

• Vol: 30
• 2000 - 2006

Can a Group of young, borderline-talented artists churn out their independent comics before the big festival? Will they ever have a hit? And more importantly, what yaoi couple will they draw? 

• Vol: 5; Ch: 49
• 2001 - 2005

The plot centers on Kazuki Sendo, whose passion and talent for painting and drawing propels him into the world of doujinshi (underground comics). Soon, Kazuki's everyday life is consumed by the fanboy life and his girlfriend is beginning to have some serious doubts about him... Sure, his new career as a struggling artist has begun, but at what cost to his friends and family?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 20
• 2005 - 2007

When Christie settles in the Artist Alley of her first ever anime convention, she only sees it as an opportunity to promote the comic she has started with her boyfriend. But conventions are never what you expect and soon the whirlwind of events sweeps Christie off her feet and changes her life. Who is the mysterious cosplayer that won't even take off his sunglasses indoors? What do you do when you fall in love with a guy who is going to be miles away from you in just a couple of days?

• Vol: 2
• 2021

• Vol: 16
• 2004 - 2009

Normal 18 year-old high school boy Min Woo, a total otaku. Does what every good little otaku boy does. Collects figurines and toys, wins prizes at cosplay contests and is a two-time champion of the fighting game "Metal Heart". Unfortunately for him, his social life is dominated by girls telling him to get lost, since his otaku-ness might be contagious. But after an accident while he is invited to participate in the playtesting of "Metal Heart 2", the main character to the game, Min Sia, materializes in front of his eyes at a cosplay festival. And now, Min Woo has to win Sia's heart in a real-life dating sim game with the fate of the world in the balance. Ok, so maybe not the world, but at least the fate of the company behind "Metal Heart 2" hanging in the balance. And who is this girl, Nuri, who appears to be following Sia and claims to be Min Woo's childhood friend...?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 10
• 2018 - 2019

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2011 - 2012

Together with Ken, her childhood friend, Yukari starts a manga duo, "Abiko and Fujimoto"! Since they were in junior high school, two of them have always been creating doujinshi that never really sell. Yukari has always liked Ken more than a friend, but it is probably doomed to be an impossible love considering the prideful and sadistic Ken never even praised her manga at all! Can Yukari win his heart with her drawing skill?